While it's raining hard

Perumazhakkalam (While it's raining hard).
The most striking feature of this beautiful film(mallu) by kamal is that the central character of the story is not a human being , but its the rain. Not the light and soft rain, but fierce and powerful one. Its there when tragedy strikes and its there when the characters in the movie are having a happy time too(althogh this is very less).
It takes guts to make a movie in which the lead hero appears in a song and probably some 20 other shots and the second lead hero has only a song to appear in. We have had lots of heroine oriented movies till date in malayalam, but even in those, hero will definitely feature throughout the movie. Perumazhakkalam differs from these and stands out as a beautiful and sad poem.
Two strong female leads played by the most talented heroines currently present in the malayalam film industry. The film is a full emotions film. The anguish and fear for one lady at one end of a river(kallayi) and the loss and pain for the other at the other end of the same river (kalpathi). Two people on two different banks of the same river, tied to each other by destiny. One of them at the mercy of the other for getting her husband pardoned and the other silently asking god why she had to lose her husband at such a young age and at the same time burdened by god with the responsibilty of making a decision to spare a life. To giver her pardon for the man who killed her husband.
Taking another man's life is not going to get her husband back and so ganga does the god's work for raziya and we end up having that feeling of heaviness in the heart at the end of the movie, that which we get when we see a movie which moves us. Not by gory scenes and wailing heroines, but by the play of emotions from the lead pair. And when i say lead pair, here, unlike other typical mallu movies, its meera jasmine and kavya madhavan (In that order!!!!!!!)